The Ring Ceremony is a public induction into the Order of the Engineer – a roster of engineers in the United States who have participated in an Engineers' Ring Ceremony and have publicly accepted the "Obligation of an Engineer."
Cockrell School alumnus Stephen Delgado, owner and president of Texas Engineering Solutions LLC, will give the Obligation Address, and alumna Andrea Ogilvie, director of the Cockrell School's Equal Opportunity in Engineering Program, will induct the candidates.
The obligation is a formal statement of an engineer's responsibilities to the public and to the profession, and is aimed to stimulate formal public recognition by engineers of two basic principles: the primary purpose of engineering is service to the public, and all members of the engineering profession share a common bond.
Once engineering candidates formally accept the Obligation of an Engineer, they each receive a stainless steel ring to be worn on the fifth finger of the working hand as a symbol.
